Applied AI Architect, Cyber

Details

The Applied AI Architecture team helps developers and enterprises safely and effectively deploy OpenAI technologies in production. This customer-facing technical role focuses on applying OpenAI models, APIs, Codex, and agentic workflows to cybersecurity use cases.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the technical lead for AI-enabled cybersecurity workflows with strategic customers.
• Partner with CISOs, security executives, application security leaders, SOC teams, security engineering teams, and hands-on practitioners.
• Lead discovery across application security, DevSecOps, vulnerability management, SOC and incident response, detection engineering, red teaming, cloud security, identity, and GRC automation.
• Build and deliver customer-facing demos, prototypes, workshops, proofs of concept, and reference architectures using OpenAI APIs, Codex, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, and common security tools.
• Scope pilots with clear success criteria, data requirements, workflow integrations, evaluation methods, security constraints, safety boundaries, and human approval points.
• Advise customers on safe implementation patterns, including tool and function calling, structured outputs, retrieval, sandboxing, data handling, guardrails, telemetry, auditability, and approval-gated side effects.
• Translate between CISO-level outcomes and practitioner-level implementation details.
• Create reusable field assets such as demo narratives, playbooks, FAQs, objection-handling materials, qualification guides, assessment templates, and competitive positioning.
• Provide customer feedback to Product, Engineering, Research, Security, and go-to-market teams.

Requirements

• 5+ years of technical consulting, solutions engineering, security architecture, cyber advisory, deployment engineering, professional services, or equivalent customer-facing technical experience.
• Strong cybersecurity expertise in one or more areas, including application security, cloud security, identity, vulnerability management, secure SDLC, incident response, detection engineering, threat intelligence, red teaming, or security architecture.
• Ability to communicate credibly with CISOs, CTOs, security executives, engineering leaders, and highly technical security practitioners.
• Hands-on experience building prototypes or production systems with APIs, Python or JavaScript, agents, scripts, CLIs, GitHub workflows, CI/CD systems, logs, tickets, scanners, or other security tooling.
• Understanding of AI workflows involving retrieval, structured outputs, tool use, evaluations, guardrails, telemetry, sandboxing, and human-in-the-loop review.
• Ability to scope pilots from ambiguous customer needs, including success metrics, required data, workflow integrations, evaluation criteria, deployment assumptions, and decision gates.
• Evidence-first security judgment, including validating findings, separating true positives from noise, documenting assumptions, and avoiding overstated model or security claims.
• Ability to own problems end to end and manage multiple concurrent customer projects.
• Humble attitude, eagerness to help colleagues, and commitment to customer and team success.

Benefits

• Base salary of CA$236,000–CA$262,500 per year.
• Equity and performance-related bonus opportunities.
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance, with employer contributions to Health Savings Accounts.
• Pre-tax flexible spending and commuter accounts.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer match.
• Paid parental, medical, and caregiver leave.
• Paid time off, company holidays, office closures, and paid sick or safe time.
• Mental health and wellness support.
• Employer-paid basic life and disability coverage.
• Annual learning and development stipend.
• Office meals and eligible meal delivery credits.
• Relocation support for eligible employees.
• Additional benefits may include charitable donation matching and wellness stipends.

OpenAI is an equal opportunity employer and provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities.